Department profile
VolunteerEMS ProviderBig Bend-Vernon Fire Department
Big Bend, WI · Waukesha County. Big Bend-Vernon Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 3 stations and 56 total personnel. The department also provides EMS services. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.
- 56
- Total personnel
- 3
- Stations
- Not reported
- Fire trucks
- Yes
- EMS service
The verdict
Big Bend-Vernon Fire Department pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Wisconsin average.
- Top 13%
- national personnel size
- +100%
- vs. Wisconsin average
- 3
- stations
National percentile ranks this department's personnel headcount against every listable U.S. department with reported staffing; the state comparison uses the same personnel figure against its own state's average. Both feed the verdict sentence and the chips above.
A staffing, equipment, EMS-integration, and federal-grant-funding composite benchmarked against every other USFA-registered department nationally, not a safety rating, response-time measure, or comparison of fire risk. Dimensions with no data on file are excluded and their weight redistributed, never counted as zero.
Big Bend-Vernon Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Big Bend, WI (Waukesha County), with 3 stations and 56 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #2,970 of 22,440.
- National personnel rank #2,970 of 22,440
- WI personnel rank #58 of 695
- 5.36 stations per 100 personnel
- EMS provider (HIFLD)
- 32 other listed departments in Waukesha County
Big Bend-Vernon Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution
Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department
56 Top 13% higher than 87% of 22,440 departments
Listable U.S. fire departments, banded by total personnel
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Source HIFLD fire-station registry · 2026-09-06
Dispatch plate
Sheet 67080 · Big Bend-Vernon Fire Department, WI 56 personnel · 3 stations
PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL
- PERS-MID 56
- STA-FEW 3 stations
- TYPE-VOL Volunteer
- EMS-Y EMS on file
- RANK-UPPER #2,970
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ North Hopewell-Wi…
- FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
- BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields
Nearest personnel peer: North Hopewell-Winterstown Volunteer Fire Company, PA (+ 0 personnel)
Volunteer HIFLD roster counts, station rows, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer, and FEMA AFG/SAFER book for this FDID, not a readiness rating.
Personnel neighbourhood
Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every WI department.
- Big Bend-Vernon (this dept) 56
- High Reno Volunteer, PA 56
- Near North Hopewell-Wi…, PA 56
- Near Goodwill Fire Com…, PA 56
- Near Arlington, MN 56
Department Profile
- Type
- MOSTLY VOLUNTEER
- Location
- Big Bend, WI
- County
- Waukesha County
- FDID
- 67080
Staffing vs the Wisconsin average
How Big Bend-Vernon Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Wisconsin. In-state it ranks #58 of 695 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #2,970 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.
- Stations
- 3
- State fire deaths/yr
- 54
- WI departments
- 961
County roster fringe
Big Bend-Vernon Fire Department is 3.7% of Waukesha County roster mass
The county lists 42 departments totaling 1,523 personnel, so this roster is a small slice; 95% of county departments show EMS coverage. County / state rollup.
5.36 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (3 stations / 56 roster).
Photo-finish peer: North Hopewell-Winterstown Volunteer Fire Company, PA (+0 personnel).
No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).
Nearby Departments
Nationwide volunteer peers near 56 personnel
Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every WI department.